A former physician and advocate of medical marijuana use will remain in prison for another 17 years or more after the state Court of Appeals on Tuesday upheld his 2017 conviction on five of seven drug charges.

A state appeals court has ruled in favor of an agent in the N.C. State Bureau of Investigation who had sued The News & Observer for libel and won $6 million from a Wake County jury after a 2016 trial that lasted more than three weeks.

Gov. Roy Cooper along with his cabinet are preparing for a possible federal government shutdown as lawmakers and Washington D.C., work to hammer out a budget compromise with President Donald Trump's administration.

Gov. Roy Cooper threatened Tuesday to veto a bill that allows for a complete do-over of the 9th Congressional District race, starting with a primary if the state elections board calls for a new election.

A new complaint and affidavit submitted by a Republican judge in Robeson County has raised new allegations of voting irregularities in the county, separate and apart from anything to do with absentee ballots.

The attorney for McCrae Dowless, the Bladen County political operative at the center of a state investigation into election irregularities in the 9th Congressional District, said Tuesday that her client "has not violated any state or federal campaign laws, and current ongoing investigations will prove the same."

The math exam that has made it difficult for hundreds of new North Carolina teachers to get their license could be phased out as early as February, based on a recent vote by a panel of state education experts.

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